Jennie (Collins Modern Classics)

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It speaks to the loneliness, the piteous abuse and abandonment of the forgotten, and the sweetness of home, love, and family. I'm glad I finally did get my hands on a copy of this, even though it's later in life than the author probably intended. The ending was by far the most excruciating pain I've ever been in, it was utterly sad and I cannot find a book which can make me weep so much as this one has. However, I probably would have survived -- we are still requiring grade-school children to read Where the Red Fern Grows, aren't we?

They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.Peter hesitates, but decides to tell the truth, that he is a boy who has been transformed into a cat. I was sent scurrying to a re-read of this following a chance post by a fellow blogger about fictional books with a cat-focus Interesting Literature.

Very quickly Jennie's role as Peter's teacher and protector shifts, until by the end she is completely reliant upon Peter and even goes as far as to say, "it's so good to have a male about who knows what to do. If you have any discomfort in your emotional life or relationships with friends or family, "Jennie" will stir it up for you somewhere along the way. I put in a basic of the plot line (I won't put it here because I don't want to give away the plot), and BLING! Deserves to be better known, it's a lovely story and well told, not hard to read, needs a contemporary cover and would stand up well against modern animal stories.

Amazing how Gallico shows the world with the eyes of an eight-year boy who turns into a cat, and lives as a cat, and matures as a cat, and fights as a cat and dies as such - to win his life back and become better. Gilt dulled a little to spine, boards unfaded and clean, spine panel has faded area to base where DJ flapping. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Fortunately, he gets rescued by the eponymous Jennie, a sweet-faced, sweet-natured, intelligent and rather plain fellow stray cat. One was slightly relieved not to find out what might have happened had Peter not died and reverted back to his human self. Even if you do not like cats, you will probably enjoy this - if you do, then you will relish the details. This is an excellent example, as it really is carefully thought through, just how a child would experience another animal's world. But Peter has a secret, he is really a human boy who forgot his road drill and after being hit by a coal lorry wakes up in the animal underground of London, as a cat.The author is American, the book was first published in 1950 and contains a couple of race-related terms which nowadays would be considered inappropriate. Above everything, he wants a cat, but as Nanny doesn’t like them and his parents are too occupied with their own concerns to risk upsetting Nanny, Peter’s dearest wish is denied. Towards the end of the book, I thought that something heartbreaking would happen – either Peter or Jennie would die, or Peter would become a human being again and that would be the end of their friendship.

By the end of the book Peter has taken on his role as a cat completely, rarely thinking of his old life as a boy and ready to battle the same cat he met with in the beginning for ownership of Jennie. His first major book was Farewell to Sport, which as the title indicates, was his farewell to sports writing. Particularly as another post by a different blogger, about a book by Beverley Nichols had sent me to my bookshelves in remembrance of a book from childhood by Nichols, about his cats.Paul Gallico's descriptions of cats and their lives is quite detailed and it looks like they were based on real observations.